Dr Mandy Bloomfield 

Lecturer 

Arts 

Email:

Mandy.Bloomfield@winchester.ac.uk 

Phone:

+44 (0) 1962 827385 

Address:

Expertise

Modern and contemporary literature, experimental poetry and poetics, literature and material geographies.

Publications

• Archaeologies of the Material Page (University of Alabama Press, forthcoming)
• ‘Maggie O’Sullivan’s Material Poetics of Salvaging in red shifts and murmur’, in The Salt Companion to Maggie O’Sullivan (Cambridge: Salt Publishing, forthcoming 2010), pp. 4–31
• ‘“Dragging at the haemorrhage of uns – ”: Maggie O’Sullivan’s excavations of Irish history’, Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry, 1. 1 9 (2009): 11–36
• ‘“Aftershock of Iconoclasm”: Ambivalence of the visual page in Susan Howe’s Eikon Basilike’, Textual Practice, 23.3 (2009): 417-437

Research Interests

The aesthetics and politics of literary form in modern and contemporary British, American and Caribbean literature. Mandy is currently finishing a book project on visual poetics entitled Archaeologies of the Material Page. A new project examines relations between environmentalist debates and issues of globalization by focusing on literary negotiations of water and waterscapes.

Funding Awards and Professional Membership

Member of the Association for Studies of Literature and Environment UK